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Incivility and bullying of new graduates
Together we can bring about change.
Bullying and incivility are all too common in nursing and continue to drive new graduates from the profession. Although great strides have been made in providing support to new...
Contemplation, connection, collaboration: Keys to compassionate spiritual care
Build a foundation for nursing students and practicing nurses to care for their patients and themselves compassionately.
Takeaways:
Incorporating contemplation, connection, and collaboration into the workplace or classroom can improve nurses’ ability to provide compassionate...
Confronting the fear of missing out
This addictive habit can lead to leader burnout.
Takeaways:
Fear of missing out (FOMO) can lead to extreme stress and an inability to make commitments.
FOMO is a type of anxiety disorder experienced when individuals...
Mentors: Learning from experts and expert teams
Travel your career path with a guide.
This month, American Nurse Journal announces the 2020 All-Pro Nursing Team winners. It’s exciting to hear about the attributes, projects, and skills that make a nursing team stand...
Creating a positive workplace
Countless research studies show that having a positive attitude leads to good health, happiness, and feelings of wellbeing and self-worth. Research also tells us that positivity in the workplace helps everyone feel better about...
Highlighting the CNO’s role: An interview with Linda Stoverock
The American Nurse team is delighted to have had an opportunity to speak with Linda Stoverock, a nurse who is retiring after a 43-year long career in the nursing field, 20 of which has been as...
The nurse as their own worst critic
Even though nurses are the largest segment of the healthcare workforce and serve as the veritable backbone of the industry, there are many ways in which nurses themselves deny the efficacious and crucial nature...
Build resilient teams to tackle nursing burnout
Use purpose, priorities, perspective, and personal responsibility to create culture-changing teams.
Takeaways:
Burnout has been identified as a public health crisis, negatively affecting individuals, organizations, patients, and communities.
Enhanced personal resilience should be simultaneously combined...
The perils of perfectionism in nursing
Don’t let perfectionism derail your leadership career.
Takeaways:
Perfectionism is a weakness masquerading as a strength.
A perfectionist approach can cause even the best and brightest people to feel unmotivated, devalued, dependent, disempowered, frustrated, and...
Nurses and the public’s trust
Speaking out against racism, discrimination, and prejudice.
We’re extremely fortunate to be members of a profession that the public considers the most honest and ethical for the 18th year in a row, according to...
March madness
It’s that time again. “March Madness” is an expression that’s been linked to basketball since 1908, but March also has been associated with another kind of madness. Beginning in the mid-1900s, people began using...
Mentoring in the age of new nursing
My first job in nursing was on a medical oncology floor where there was a lot of bullying. I was a new nurse so I didn’t know that bullying among nurses is common. I...
High physician suicide rates: Nursing interventions
How can physicians give patients the care and compassion they don’t receive themselves?
Every year 300-400 physicians commit suicide. In her poignant TEDMED talk Dr. Pamela Wible discusses her book, “Physician Suicide Letters Answered”...